Wednesday, June 9, 2010

World's fossil-fuel CO2 emissions in 2009: China is No. 1 three years in a row

BP released its latest annual "Statistical Review of World Energy". This year, they calculated fossil-fuel CO2 emissions of countries. China is the world's most emitter far away from No. 2, the United States.

The following chart is a record of CO2 emissions changes in top ten dirtiest countries over the past 10 years.

Surprisingly, even in the global economic recession, the emissions in five countries (China, India, South Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia) increased from 2008 to 2009. (Annual change percentages the table below differ from BP's numbers in their original Excel spreadsheet. I cannot figure out the reason.)